With the recent release of openSUSE 12.1, the build service is so totally swamped with everybody scrambling to get last fixes in their projects, that it currently takes about two days to build a viewer there. Whereas before, it used to take two hours. Just a little example: a package of the latest firestorm that I was trying to buid took twelve hours to go from 76% to 90%…

With such turnaround times there’s not much I can do right now.

Since I have a couple of to do items that I have to address before I can release the next Dolphin Viewer 3 (which will be based on 3.2 sources and Marine Kelley’s latest RLV, and have a couple of other shiny things that you will like a lot), I’ll postpone the next releases until the build service has a bit more breathing room.

Besides, I gotta update mine and Lapis’ laptops to 12.1 first anyway.

Why am I not building at home you ask?

My linux build environment at home is a Debian 5 in a VirtualBox VM on a Mac Mini. Good enough to crunch out release packages over night, but for a development cycle? Forget it.